On Friday, both sides played a practice match ahead of the series which was ended in favor of the home side.

Bangladesh batted first and set a target of 146 runs for Afghanistan A to chase in 20 overs. Afghanistan A chased down the target in the 17.2 overs. Opener Hazratullah Zazai scored unbeaten 69 runs while Mohammad Nabi and Shafiqulah Shafaq remained not on 32 and 28 runs respectively.

So far Afghanistan have played only on T20I against Bangladesh. It was back in 2014 in a group stage match of ICC World T20 which Bangladesh won the match by 9 wickets.